Re: [orca-list] Orca and IDEs

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com> writes:

> > > I wonder if anyone can suggest some IDEs which work well with orca. 
> >
> > Emacs, run from gnome-terminal, or much better, run with Emacspeak installed
> > if you use speech output. 
> Strange that, I seemed to be heading for the emacs answer anyway. I was
> thinking of emacspeak in a text console, but I would like braille as
> well (I don't know whether brltty in a text console will be as good as
> from a screen reader which may do more intelegent processing of what to
> display). 

Brltty can be used much better in a text console. I use it all day long
and I'm satisfied to a maximum.
It cooperates with Emacspeak as well.
And BTW: You can use Speech-dispatcher as speech output of brltty.

> What about speechd-el? Supposedly speechd-el supports brltty
> as well as speech-dispatcher, but when I used it, it had some annoying
> behaviours eg. brailling the words "blank line" when the line is blank
> instead of showing a blank braille line.
It has its own braille interface, which you mustn't use, if you don't like
it. For more details please check out Speechd-el's manual:
info speechd-el

> I keep intending to learn emacs, but I keep putting it off, may be I
> just need to sit down and spend some time learning the few thousand key
> presses.
Emacs has a menu too. If you use it all day long, you become familiar
with the keystrokes. And you really mustn't know them all by heart :-)
Hermann

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